January 31, 2008

OpenOffice Calc and Writer Chart Users -- This Is for You

This looks pretty fantastic. New features for charting coming in OpenOffice.org 2.4.

http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_chart_features_in_openoffice

and more here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Chart2/Features2.4

To try it out, click here for the announcement and download info.

Here's just one of the new features, quoting from this post.

Equation and Value of R² for Trend Lines24regeq_2

Now, it is possible to display the equation for a trend line (regression curve) next to it. The formula object can be moved around, formatted with a number format, font and graphical formatting.

Alternatively, or in addition, the correlation coefficient R² can be displayed in the formula object.


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